Contamination

  • Science Fiction
  • Horror
8/2/1980
95
R

You can feel them in your blood!

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

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  • talisencrw

    Little did cinema realize when it happened just how much Sergio Leone's first two entries of 'The Man With No Name' trilogy, in making spaghetti-western versions of Akira Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' and 'Sanjuro', would be an influence, today, 50-odd years later. It could be said that in the fervor of Italian directors going from one filmmaking trend to the next (from the neorealist agenda of 'Ossessione' and 'Rome, Open City', to swords-and-sandals epics, then spaghetti westerns, then the crime films of the 70's, then space invasion films, such as this, after the huge global success of Sir Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and George Lucas' 'Star Wars') has had almost as much an influence on cinema as the groundbreaking game-changers that initiated this mas...

    April 22, 2016
  • Reb_Brown

    For those who saw ZOMBIE, this film starts hilariously similar, featuring an empty vessel floating into New York Harbor while a cop comments that the skipper of that craft "must be a real turkey". Also you'll hear right away a lot of voice-over by Nick Alexander, who was the voice of one of the most prominent characters in ZOMBIE. It's an exploitation movie exploiting a fellow exploitation movie!

    Things immediately fall apart once we're treated to some truly hideous dialog, poor production values, and even worse editing choices as the film gets into its narrative. The first act of the film benefits most by delivering some juicy exploding body effects though the plot can't really figure out a good way to factor it all into a cohesive and ...

    February 13, 2018
  • Tourma

    Weeeee Wooooong

    Inexplicably one of the better movies Rifftrax has done. Not to say that it's good, but might even be watchable without the joke commentary.

    Everyone can act, the dubbing is halfway decent, the lead actress is good looking, the premise is good enough. The aliens are unique.

    The highlight though is the music is by The Goblin. I've never heard of them before, but his 1980 as hell music really works.

    So I give it a Weeee Wooong out of 5.

    March 19, 2025

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